No Picnic on Mount Kenya (Italian: Fuga sul Kenya), by Felice Benuzzi is a mountaineering classic recounting the 1943 attempt of three escaped Italian prisoners of war to reach the summit of Mount Kenya. It was first published in 1947 in Italian and in 1952 in English. The 1994 film The Ascent is based on this book.
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